Logical Fallacies -- Ethos, Pathos & Logos

Fallacies are something that is not the truth or that is fake. A fallacy could also be a made up story or a story that stretches the truth. Now, don't let this confuse you from a fairy tale, fairy tales are not necessarily fallacies. There are many different types of fallacies, but lets just focus on ethos, pathos and logos.

Ethos is considered a credible source, this is used for convincing people of things that you want them to believe. This is usually used in presentations, books or projects.

Pathos deals with emotions, to try and pull the heart strings of people. This is also a way that advertisers make you feel sorry for certain things. Such as the food commercials about the little children starving in third world countries.


Logos are way of persuasion, this is also called the arguments logical appeal. This is because, we use this during arguments or proposals of different sorts.

Diction

Diction

Which would you prefer to be called? Skinny or slender? Most people would probably say that they would like to be called slender. This is because slender sounds nice, it makes you sound like you are fit and toned. Like you are in perfect shape. This is diction, using two words that are similar but have different meanings.




Diction is a broad category as there are many different types of diction. Just a few of them would be formal, informal and colloquial. Formal is, used in conferences, presentations and other settings that would involve a person to need to be very professional. Informal would be used in a day to day conversation where it doesn't matter so much. Colloquial, is words that are used in everyday talking, but the big difference between informal and Colloquial is that, colloquial is 'slang' words.